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Eric Katz

Eric Katz joined Government Executive in the summer of 2012 after graduating from The George Washington University, where he studied journalism and political science. He has written for his college newspaper and an online political news website and worked in a public affairs office for the Navy’s Military Sealift Command. Most recently, he worked for Financial Times, where he reported on national politics.

November 4, 2015
Much like Bob Dylan in 1965, federal employees may soon want to go electric. An amendment approved by the House on Tuesday as part of a much larger transportation bill would authorize federal agencies to install electric car charging stations in their parking lots. The measure, introduced with bipartisan support,...

November 4, 2015
As some lawmakers warned the recent budget deal has not yet staved off a government shutdown, others on Wednesday looked to reform the budgeting process in the long term. Federal agency planners spend a disproportionate amount of their time preparing for various budget contingencies, senators said during a Budget Committee...

November 3, 2015
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced the first-ever class of the White House Leadership Development Program, an initiative the president created last year in an effort to cultivate a new cadre of top career federal managers. Sixteen federal supervisors currently employed as General Schedule-15s from agencies throughout government will participate...

October 30, 2015
Federal agencies spent $334 million on 825 advisory committees in fiscal 2014, according to a new report. The number of federal advisory committees -- established to “allow experts from outside the federal government to provide advice and recommendations” -- generally hover around 1,000 annually, with about 70,000 members. Last year,...

October 30, 2015
The Senate on Friday passed a budget framework to set spending levels for the next two years, but lawmakers have yet to complete their work for funding federal agencies. The bipartisan deal, which passed with near unanimous support from Democrats but only a minority of Republicans in both chambers, raises...

October 29, 2015
The House on Thursday elected Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to be its next speaker, elevating one of the country’s elected officials who has most consistently targeted federal employees to cut spending. Ryan rose to prominence in part when he put forward budget plans in several consecutive Congresses that aimed to...

October 28, 2015
The 11 top candidates for the Republican presidential nomination participated in the party’s third debate on Wednesday. The event, held in Boulder, Colo., focused on the economy, which throughout the night, turned into a discussion on the role of the federal government. Here are the main takeaways from the contenders...

October 28, 2015
Federal employees will not have to worry about losing their health insurance if the plan in which they are enrolled is dropped from the government’s offerings, a rule finalized on Wednesday ensured. The Office of Personnel Management issued the final regulation requiring agencies to automatically enroll employees and annuitants into...

October 28, 2015
The Hispanic population ticked up very slightly as a percentage of the total federal workforce in fiscal 2014, according to a new report, but it still lags far behind the Hispanic makeup of the U.S. population. About 8.4 percent of federal employees were Hispanic as of fiscal 2014, up from...

October 27, 2015
The Obama administration finalized on Tuesday its proposal that 102,000 federal employees receive a significant raise next year, implementing its decision to create 13 new locality pay areas. An additional 6,300 federal workers would also receive a pay bump as they are moved from the “rest of United States” designation...

Database-level encryption had its origins in the 1990s and early 2000s in response to very basic risks which largely revolved around the theft of servers, backup tapes and other physical-layer assets. As noted in Verizon’s 2014, Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)1, threats today are far more advanced and dangerous.

In order to better understand the current state of external and internal-facing agency workplace applications, Government Business Council (GBC) and Riverbed undertook an in-depth research study of federal employees. Overall, survey findings indicate that federal IT applications still face a gamut of challenges with regard to quality, reliability, and performance management.

PIV- I And Multifactor Authentication: The Best Defense for Federal Government Contractors

This white paper explores NIST SP 800-171 and why compliance is critical to federal government contractors, especially those that work with the Department of Defense, as well as how leveraging PIV-I credentialing with multifactor authentication can be used as a defense against cyberattacks

This research study aims to understand how state and local leaders regard their agency’s innovation efforts and what they are doing to overcome the challenges they face in successfully implementing these efforts.

The U.S. healthcare industry is rapidly moving away from traditional fee-for-service models and towards value-based purchasing that reimburses physicians for quality of care in place of frequency of care.